MINE DETECTING AND COLLECTING BY THE ROYAL ENGINEERS [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: MINE DETECTING AND COLLECTING BY THE ROYAL ENGINEERS [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: AYY 299/5
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Men from the 256th Field Company, Royal Engineers, collecting mines along the Cap Serrat road from Sedjenane, Tunisia.
  • Description: The advance scouts go off and the covering party advance. A sapper with a mine detector registers a mine and shouts for another sapper to prod the ground to make sure. The mine is uncovered. The officer cuts the string on the booby trap and releases the mine.
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: AYY 299/5
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1942-12-23
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company) Meyer (Sergeant) (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Engineers, 256th Field Company (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Sedjenane, Tunisia (geography) Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event) North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 199 ft; Running time: 2 mins
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    AYY 299/5

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